sinners in the hands of an angry god respnse

Briana Weems
Sinners In The Hands Paper
Pastor Jonathon Edwards is the pastor of a church who openly speaks his beliefs. He tells you that what he believes is the truth and is all that matters. He uses both pathos and ethos to get his point across. He tells the story about how when you do things wrong God will punish you for them. He also talks about how he thinks the world is going to end because he thinks that there are so many people doing things wrong that God is going to punish them all at once.
In one part of his speech he uses ethos to get his point across. He uses the bible as his credibility. “The same is expressed, Psalm 73:18. Surely thou castedst them down into destruction.” He is talking about how when you are always in places where things are not right you are destined to have something bad happen to you. He is using the fact that what he was talking about had to be right because it was in the bible. He does it again when he was talking how when you do wrong things you don’t know when you are going to get punished for doing those bad things and when it happens it is going to be worse than you expected it to be. “Which is also expressed in Psalm 73:18, 19. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction: How are they brought into desolation as in a moment!”
Edwards also uses logics to prove that what he is saying is what is best. He talks about how just as easy as it is for us to do people wrong, it is easy for god to send us to hell. So that basically is you think it was easy for you to do someone wrong, watch and see how easy it is for God to punish for doing someone wrong. He is using logics here because he is saying its not faulty logic because why should it be hard for God to punish you for the wrong doings you have did to others.
Edwards also uses pathos to try to get people to do right and believe that what he is saying is the truth. “God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell.” Edwards is appealing to fear to make people think about what they are doing and what is going to happen to them. He is basically telling them that God is more angry with the people that are sitting in this church right now, meaning that just because you are in church doesn’t mean that are not saved from his wrath, than people burning in hell for the things that they have done to others.
Edwards uses descriptive words to describe how God punishes those who does wrong doings. “The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.” Edwards uses scary words to scare his audience into doing the right things. He uses words like “wrath, burns, pit, fire, furnace, flames, and rage” to paint the picture of what is waiting for these people if they continue to do the wrong things they are doing. He is using these words to paint a vivid picture by using all these imagery words.
Throughout his speech Jonathon Edwards talked about the wrong doings with others. He talked about how when you do things wrong what is going to happen to you. He talked about the punishments God has in store for you and how you will burn for those things. He makes his audience see what is in store for them and how it will affect them in long term. And how just because you don’t get punished immediately for what you have done don’t think God has forgotten and he is just waiting for the right time to execute his plan.